JKane

Kardashian divorce by the numbers. Cost of the Kardashian wedding: $10 million, henceforth referred to as 1 Kardashian Amount Kim and Kris made on their wedding, through various media partnerships: $18 million, or 1.8 Kardashians...

The clip or two I saw of them interacting (on The Soup, that's the closest I'll get to watching these stupid spoiled whores) he seemed barely able to tolerate her, so this is no surprise whatsoever. He's cute but there are better actors on most (other) bs reality shows, imho.

Haven't watched the show yet but mean to, as I also really like Damian Lewis, his show Life was OK but I think he's most memorable from Band of Brothers. He's tall and very handsome in person, btw. Had no idea he's British 'till I just looked him up!

But, like I said, I do keep an open mind, and stuff like this does paint a better view of the man.

All were pretty well known, to me at least, for quite a while. I've treaded a bit carefully (for me, anyway) because of all the overdone public grief, and I keep hoping that maybe we'll find out about some last act of generosity to his employees or altruism that may prove me wrong... Such as giving all his employees (esp. in the stores, even better in the factories) some meaningful bonus or leaving a substantial amount to the Gates foundation (or similar, but they seem to be about the best). Lacking that, I see no reason to like him any more in death than I did in life. Sure, he was a visionary, but he was also pretty clearly a real arsehole. Now, Bill Gates, on the other hand, practically deserves sainthood (esp. in comparison) but would probably get nowhere near this level of adulation should something happen to him. And that's pissing me off.

I hadn't thought about it 'till a webcomic I follow pointed it out, but all the cartoons of a Buddhist with St. Peter at the gates or with the Christian god are in really bad taste! Found another, even better comic on the subject! 60 minutes is doing a segment tomorrow that I guess will include stuff about the roll alternative medicine played in his death.

It looks fairly laborious to use, but still, translation to/from 14 languages... including Brazilian Portuguese!

How could somebody so smart... be so fucking stupid? Perhaps he's give the world one more gift with his passing: providing yet another datapoint against this kind of quackery.

baaaaaa... bAaAaaaaA... (/sheep noises)

+1 This isn't rocket science, and the buttons exist on the logon page! Furthermore, they *once* worked!

I took my bike down to Union Station via Metrolink. They had a dedicated bike car, was easy, except their schedule was pretty limited on Sunday. It was fun, pretty unique. I rode to the end of each spur, something like 23 miles total. Crapload of people... many of whom aren't great bike riders... making it a little difficult with so many people. Especially where they bunch up at crossings. At one point it took 5 light changes before I could get through a light. I really wish they'd decide to really do this: either find a route they can truly block off (like I'm guessing they do for the marathon) or give the cycles greater priority and have a lot less crossings, at the least. I've been downtown a good number of times over the last year. It's usually a ghost town on weekends, especially the civic center/courts/business districts, great for walking and sightseeing. Never felt threatened or in danger, even the time I cut up skid row. With a little determination one can hit all the key places (they've got great signs) and there's a great site about it. In one walk I've hit Chinatown, Olivera Street, Library tower (you can't get in, there's no public observation deck), little Tokyo, Disney Hall, and seen the fucking cool high school. Still haven't seen Angel's Flight though, so there's at least one little section I haven't hit. CicLAvia... I dunno, it is very convenient to get my bike to via metrolink (would be much more so on Saturdays...), but if they don't change the route and increase their capacity to deal with the more and more people who show up each time I might not need to go again. But IF they do or something similar happens in an area where they'll actually block off cars for an event (Hollywood!) I'd be there with bells on. Seriously, the bells might keep oblivious cunts from swerving in front of me... And while it's cool to ride on the streets and get a feel for the different areas and how they connect, it wasn't great for sightseeing. Only glanced Disney Hall and Library tower, for example. Though did ride through little Tokyo and Olivera Street was just off one end. Didn't seem to be a lot to *do* either, some places had cool music, and riding through the occupyLA area was cool, but I didn't see anything that made me want to get off and investigate.

Ha! Reminds me of trips to K-Mart as a kid. I always went and got several 'rubber repair' kits from the bike section and found a peg for them with the condoms.

My two favorites are Cracker and The Wire, is it one of them?

I always hear about these things to late or they happen when I'm out of town, but tomorrow (Sunday the 9th) a bunch of streets downtown will be closed for the third CicLAvia. Past ones seemed to go very well, I'm looking forward to finally joining in!

I went into this in great detail when it first started happening to me, was under the impression it was just me so I gave up. Lame-ass work around is having Firefox remember my login and bookmarking the login page... http://www.maleescortreview.com/forum/index.php?app=core&module=global&section=login&do=process but it would be far better if it farking worked properly!

I'm *still* using a Windows Mobile phone. I loved that years before the iPhone came out I could tether (getting DSL speed through my cell phone instead of paying for access in hotels or airports), watch movies, customize a bunch of stuff, and not need uncle Steve's permission to run any app I wanted. But I'm not too keen on the new Windows phones, because they dumbed them way down (to compete with the iPhone...). That said, I've heard a lot of great stuff about the latest update, people here might want to consider one. My next phone is likely to be Android. They usually have pretty dismal battery life but can do anything you can think of wanting to do with a phone (barely) pocketable computer. I'm just hoping for a powerful one *with* a keyboard, like ATT is rumored to be getting RSN from Samsung. I tried a Motorola Atrix for a couple weeks, liked a lot of things about it but between ATT and Motorola it was stuffed full of useless crap, was slow to get updates, locked down, and really got on my nerves with all the stupid little things that weren't customizable. The biggest problem was the price combined with the fact that at the time there was nothing that could make use of all its' processing power, both of those problems are somewhat better now, I'm sure, and with Google buying Moto it's possible many of the others are as well. I stick with ATT because I'm grandfathered into a great plan (was ATT before Cingular). If I wasn't I'd probably lean towards Verizon--their coverage just seems much better.

No, American can add a bunch of fees on top of the tax. They seem to come up more when you're not booking much in advance, or if you do anything that costs them a cent (like calling to make the reservation). They'll also probably charge you a bag fee at the airport, if you check a bag. All that said, I'm still a fan. I got something like 150k miles last year just for opening two credit cards. There's a new one now that gets you pretty much all the gold perks plus access to the Admirals clubs, though the fee is pretty steep. I'm keeping an eye on it at Flyertalk, will wait 'till it has more than a 25k mile bonus for signing up.

I was just a bit surprised how little of that 15m showed on the screen. Must've all been eaten up by the TWELVE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS! Seriously, I noticed that right away in the opening credits, it kept going and going... it was like a hilarious in-joke. Only it was real. And each of them, I'm sure, had notes upon notes for the VFX that ate up all the time early on with stupid minutia, leaving no time to fix things when the final assembly went so wrong for many of the shots. But my biggest problem is nailed by the review I linked... "It's the end of the fucking world and you're gonna be a stupid, selfish, teenage shit, huh?" Because of Daddy issues? What, did Jane Espenson also "help" this script?! I think they really missed a huge opportunity, imagine how much more epic and powerful the start would've been if everybody in that party died horribly! Nobody in network TV has the balls, of course. But I would've stood up and cheered, made it #1 on my Tivo right fucking then.

Never thought much of Ramsay until I saw this the other day: Now I have some respect for him. Never heard of the other guy, though he's easier on the eyes. I'm with TY though, IF I cooked the only celebrity chef who's name I might seek out on something is Alton Brown, because I assume he'd have something to do with the quality and function of anything he put his name on (I don't think he has put his name on anything yet). Since new episodes of Good Eats have been sparse lately I've also been watching America's Test Kitchen on PBS. Not quite the same vibe but similar in some ways, and I'd probably check their equipment reviews first if I were looking to buy kitchen gear.

I usually love everything HBO, but I think you've nailed my problem with Boardwalk... I've never read about or traveled to Atlantic City, nor do I care to. So it just didn't manage to catch me, even though I watched all of season 1. I'm sure for east-coasters there's inherently more interest. Love me some Treme though!

Absolutely loved this review of it! The Bromance of the Century Honestly, I really think the reason to watch Terra Nova is going to be the relationship between Jim Shannon and his new leader, Nathaniel Taylor. An hour into the pilot, they're already holding hands — see screencap at left. I honestly can't wait to see the shmoopy fanvids that people are going to make about the Nathaniel/Jim relationship. And what's great about it is, they both really are interesting characters who seem to have a healthy respect and distrust for each other. It's not just that they seem to throw sparks whenever they're together. But yes, there are lots of sparks — as soon as Jim arrives in the dinosaur land, he and Nathaniel come into conflict over whether Jim can be a cop. And Nathaniel is like, "You can't be a cop until you prove yourself by taking off your shirt and climbing the fence so I can watch you cut vines with a big machete." So Jim does, and Nathaniel takes the rest of the day off so he can watch shirtless Jim climbing around. Because that's part of what Leadership is about. Then Jim saves Nathaniel's life from a random shooter guy, and Nathaniel decides to make Jim a cop after all — but first they trek into the wilderness together so they can stand on a mountaintop and talk about the future. Finally, the two men go dinosaur jousting together, and then Nathaniel helps Jim save his dumb kid. It's the bromance of the century! Oh, and here's the scene where Nathaniel Taylor looks at Jim Shannon's crotch and then looks back up at his face, before saying, "Come on. Let's take a drive." --They have the clip on the page, it's hilarious. There's also something in "General Avatar's" voice that does actually sound a bit suggestive. Does he play for our team? Overall, I was underwhelmed by the show. None of the VFX are great, 25 years after Jurassic Park and not only did they not exceed it, I don't think they managed to match it once. And the dinosaur shots are a lot better than many other shots, some of which are so bad they made me wince. But by far my biggest disappointment was how petty everything is, despite the epic setup. Instead of any time to see the wonder of the new world or mourn the ruined one left behind it jumps into a bunch of kids too stupid to live, unfortunately not all dying. Yet while I initially thought the paradox would create an idiotic setup, the is it/isn't it aspect is pretty interesting to me. But I worry that any interesting plot points like that could be drawn out for 5 or more seasons and go nowhere, ala Lost. I'll give it a few more episodes but may well give up after that. On the other hand, I was pleasantly surprised by Pan Am.

I watched it and liked it as well, hard to say why (it's no Skins), but it was certainly more interesting than shit like The Cape we got here last season...

Yeah, I'd have to say he's about the only character left I give a shit about after finishing Dance with Dragons. His was certainly the most interesting story in it. I wasn't that into Daenerys BEFORE she spent a whole fucking book mewing about "woe is me, heavy is the crown of this little podunk backwater", AS JON did much the same on the wall! Seriously fail to see why it's taken two nigh-endless books to get nowhere now.

I'm planning to go to the upcoming one in Huntington Beach, will it compare at all? Don't suppose there'll be a 'gay tent' in the O.C....

I don't get how anybody could equate those things. The first two use satire to say important things and to take a stand. For example... The last two (plus Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck) will say absolutely anything that will help them earn another million dollars or keep another $10k of that million in the bank, no matter the long-term consequences, hypocrisy, or downright sleaze they must perpetrate--while saying that *they* are the true patriots and are speaking for the average joe (or for justice, morality, etc). It is the very height of cynicism, I can think of no better word yet that one is sorely lacking without at least a string of expletives to multiply it. And the people who don't bother to inform themselves and choose a right from wrong, who sway like leaves in the wind in constant gusts of Fear Uncertainty and Doubt... you are mission fucking accomplished. A vast middle class too busy with petty fears and manipulations to notice or care that you are rapidly slipping from middle class and will be the first American generation to have a financial outlook worse than your parents. But if this thought crosses your mind as you sit on crap Ikea furniture stuffing your maw with Cheetos, some new distraction always comes. What never seems to come is the critical reasoning to say you know, that's bullshit. Somebody stands up and says something, you start to think they may be right, then a network of multimillionaires owned by one of the worlds wealthiest billionaires tells you no, no, that's wrong, the real problem here is [whatever is either a distraction or of benefit to the oligarchs], you're not convinced they're right either, but it's enough to get you to sit back down and reach for the remote. Thus ends the dream that was America. Not with a bang, just the dusty crunch of a sat upon Cheeto.